jsii

jsii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes. It is the technology that enables the AWS Cloud Development Kit to deliver polyglot libraries from a single codebase! (by aws)

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  • AWS Makes Cloud Formation Stack Creation Up to 40% Faster
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2024
    The libraries for other supported languages of CDK are built as wrappers for underlying JS or maybe TS code via https://github.com/aws/jsii

    So all the core CDK code is written first in JS/TS and then stubs for the other languages are added

    Unfortunately this is often done without consideration for how the other supported langs actually work, and artefacts of e.g. JS lack of support for kwargs leak through

    This is why e.g. the typing in CDK Python is completely broken - pretty much uniformly the concrete types like "Resource" don't implement their corresponding interface like "IResource" (to a type checker)

    (There are many other typing niggles like this but that's the most egregious and pervasive one)

    At the end of the day, having to explicitly cast concrete types as their interface to satisfy type checker is a minor annoyance, albeit a stupid one that could have been avoided with more care in the core library.

    I could live with that, but I encountered so many bugs and issues trying to use CDK on current project that it's now much clearer to me why every company I worked at previously was using Terraform.

    Pretty sure some of those issues are ultimately CloudFormation ones. The cumbersome CF > CDK JS > CDK Python stack is great for obfuscating errors and making debugging hard or impossible though.

    Pulumi do something similar, albeit with Go as the core language and Terraform underneath. From what I've seen with a little use they have a much more successful result though, Pulumi Python was not a complete mess, and deploys faster and more reliable with better error feedback. I guess they just took more care to get it right.

  • Cloud, why so difficult? 🤷‍♀️
    6 projects | dev.to | 22 May 2023
    To "meet developers where they are" is a beautiful tenet of AWS, and of the CDK, and inspired us to create awesome technology such as JSII and constructs.
  • Automating AWS API gateways v1 REST
    5 projects | /r/serverless | 30 Apr 2023
    Yeah both CDKTF and Pulumi piggyback on JSII, a class translator that supports the languages you've mentioned, which was used as a building base for CDK.
  • New open-source programming language for DevOps engineers by the creator of the CDK
    11 projects | /r/devops | 15 Apr 2023
    The reason we chose to start with compilation to JavaScript and not some other popular cloud language is because JavaScript is currently one of the most used ones, and in addition, we are using JSII to write our SDK in Typescript and then export it for consumption in other languages, such as Go, Python, Java and others.
  • Write SDK “base” in Rust, wrap in other languages?
    11 projects | /r/rust | 31 Mar 2023
  • CDKTF Frequently Asked Questions
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2023
    The CDKTF CLI is implemented in TypeScript. Providers and resources are implemented in TypeScript as well. jsii is used to compile the providers and resources to the supported languages.
  • 10 things about AWS CDK
    3 projects | dev.to | 2 Feb 2023
  • My Infrastructure as Code Rosetta Stone - Deploying the same web application on AWS ECS Fargate with CDK, Terraform and Pulumi
    8 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2023
    cdk-django and pulumi-aws-django are both written in TypeScript. terraform-aws-django is written in HCL, a domain specific language created by HashiCorp. The cdk-django is published to both npm and PyPI, so you can use it in JavaScript, TypeScript and Python projects, other languages are supported as well, but you need to write your library in TypeScript so it can be transpiled to other languages using jsii.
  • AWS's Open Source Problem - by Corey Quinn
    5 projects | /r/aws | 27 Apr 2022
    That said - https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker and https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket are interesting, and while AWS CDK is very AWS specific, the underlying jsii https://github.com/aws/jsii and projen https://github.com/projen/projen/issues are fundamental services.
  • Deploy Infrastructure using CDK for Terraform with Go
    6 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2022
    You may notice the usage of jsii everywhere in the module/stack we defined earlier, and it is required for the Go library to interact with the underlying node runtime.
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The primary programming language of jsii is TypeScript.

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